“The Style Issue” with a Kadir Nelson cover — the second Nelson cover in three weeks. It’s titled “Savoring Summer” (and again, I question why the New Yorker‘s covers need to be titled. Shouldn’t covers speak for themselves, so to speak? This cover certainly does). The cartoons: Thinking there’d be a bevy of cartoonists in this mid-September issue (last week’s
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Cartoon Companion’s Amy Hwang Interview (Pt.1); Columbia University Libraries’ “Comics In the Curriculum”; The Tilley Watch:The New Yorker Festival
Cartoon Companion’s Amy Hwang Interview (Pt.1) Cartoon Companion has expanded its features, offering glimpses of rough drawings and interviews with New Yorker cartoonists. Here’s the latest with Amy Hwang, who began contributing to the magazine in November of 2010. Link here to her website. ___________________________________________________________________ Columbia Universities Libraries’ “Comics in the Curriculum” Karen Green, over at Columbia University, has been
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Note: The New Yorker‘s current cartoon editor, Bob Mankoff will be speaking here and here in September, and appearing here in October. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ If you’re going to the upcoming New Yorker Festival, you might run into a few cartoonists in something called The United Airlines Lounge. Here’s a schedule.
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Bob Mankoff, The New Yorker’s Cartoon Editor, has been busy lately, traveling hither and yon, leaving radio interviews, print interviews and articles in his wake. Here’s a sampling: From swarthmore.edu, November 4, 2014, “Getting Serious About Funny Business: Robert Mankoff on Cartoons and Psychology” Radio interview, wabe.org, November 4, 2014, “Robert Mankoff, Cartoon Editor of The New Yorker” From mlive.
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